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I always say that the purchase and setup of a domain and hosting should be left to the professionals; diving into something that you don’t completely understand, you’re bound to make a mistake. However, even when using a professional, you should always make sure that you protect yourself and the investment you’re making [...]

Imagine this: You’re a general contractor and you’re about to start building a custom home. You show up to the work site and your client has taken it upon themselves to buy all the supplies – wood, nails, framing equipment, rental equipment, and hired all the sub-contractors. But, upon closer inspection you notice that [...]

I was going to try and be clever with my title for this posting, but I felt like this maybe warranted a bit of a direct approach. I think the topic is fairly self-explanatory, so I’ll just get into it. You see it everywhere now – free this, free that, “don’t pay when you get it for free” – this needs [...]

Somehow he found a way to verbalize exactly what I’ve been thinking for a long time. I also happen to worship his company philosophy, so that probably makes me biased. Just watch and you’ll understand.

Learn. Learn. Learn. Everyone always questions me on why I like to build a custom CMS rather than use something packaged like WordPress or Joomla. The answer is actually quite simple; I like to learn. I strongly believe that if you’re not willing to learn how to do it on your own, then you shouldn’t be doing it in the first [...]

I recently read an article that was talking about how as you move into the future you shouldn’t forget the past. What they were referring to was the need to always be backwards compatible and that your website should be developed for and accessible through Internet Explorer 6, just as much as any modern browser. It raised the [...]

For anyone that has ever doubted themselves as a programmer, designer, graphic artists, whatever it is, this article is a must-read. It’s an article written by John Nunemaker and it’s about the idea of being a ‘natural’ talent at something. This article definitely made me rethink any time that I’ve doubted [...]

Well, maybe not my life, but definitely my sanity (both of equal usefulness and importance.) It started out as a bit of an accident, actually. One day at work as I was slaving away with my DOM coding – which always feels like a mild punishment when I need to do it – I was searching for the answer to one of the many questions [...]

It’s undeniable: you have to be on Facebook. The social media giant blew the online networking market out of the water when it first released in 2004. It wasn’t like we’re all new to the social media world, but it was all small-time compared to the scale that Facebook is today. Sites like Nexopia just couldn’t [...]

Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ve probably heard of Adobe Dreamweaver. The general idea behind Dreamweaver is that it’s a tool that helps programmers create websites – but in reality, the sole purpose of the program is to allow anyone to list ‘Web Programmer’ under their occupational skill set. It’s a jammed packed program [...]